{"id":16009,"date":"2025-08-22T11:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16009\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:09:07","slug":"your-basic-guide-to-gameweek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16009\/","title":{"rendered":"Your basic guide to Gameweek 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short of time as you tweak your <a href=\"https:\/\/fantasy.premierleague.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fantasy Premier League<\/a> team ahead of the Gameweek 2 deadline on <strong>Friday 22 August at 18:30 BST<\/strong>?<strong> <\/strong>Don&#8217;t worry! Here are quick solutions to the biggest decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Scout Selection<\/p>\n<p>Here is The Scout&#8217;s line-up for Gameweek 2, including who you could pick using the Bench Boost chip. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/news\/4387107\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Players to consider buying<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) \u00a39.0m forward<br \/>&#8211; Marc Cucurella (Chelsea) \u00a36.0m defender<br \/>&#8211; Tijjani Reijnders (Man City) \u00a35.6m midfielder<br \/>&#8211; Bafode Diakite (AFC Bournemouth) \u00a34.5m defender<\/p>\n<p>Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/news\/4380737\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see why these are great picks.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s the best captain?<\/p>\n<p>The Scout&#8217;s top three picks:<br \/>1. Erling Haaland<br \/>2. Bukayo Saka<br \/>3. Ollie Watkins<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/news\/4387122\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for details on why these are the best captains, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/news\/4387029\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see who the experts are backing.<\/p>\n<p>Team news<\/p>\n<p>Click below to see the latest team news in our injuries page, with updates on Liverpool defender Jeremie Frimpong (\u00a36.0m), Arsenal&#8217;s Kai Havertz (\u00a37.5m) and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Short of time as you tweak your Fantasy Premier League team ahead of the Gameweek 2 deadline on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132,2615],"class_list":{"0":"post-16009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-text"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}